The 3 A's of Business Analysis

<p>This week on Business Analysis Live!, Susan Moore sits down with the team behind the Festival of Business Analysis (FOBA) — IIBA Australia&#39;s Abi Sachithanantham and Luigi Bini — to unpack this year&#39;s crowdsourced theme: Adapt, Align, and Accelerate. It&#39;s a two-week celebration (online first, then in person across five Australian cities plus Auckland and Wellington), and this year&#39;s program leans hard into more than just AI hype.</p><p>Susan also catches up with closing keynote speaker Shane Hastie (CBAP #140 and a core contributor to BABOK 3.0) on why career shape-shifting — not job titles — is the real story of this AI moment. Vaughan Luckman of Luckman Beyond BA makes the case that BAs are the &quot;kings and queens of context&quot; and they can&#39;t afford to sit back and wait for a seat at the table. And Sharon Robson and Will McNellis of Core State Consulting preview their workshop on political quotient — because office politics isn&#39;t something to avoid but something we need understand.</p><p>Whether you&#39;re headed to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Auckland, or Wellington — or joining online — this episode is a taste of what you’ll hear at FOBA this year.- Episode Highlights● How FOBA&#39;s 2026 theme for this year was crowdsourced from the community● Shane Hastie talks about his closing keynote - &quot;the shape you didn&#39;t plan&quot; and the broken-comb shaped skill set● Vaughan Luckman says ditch the 300-page document and claim a seat at the table● Sharon Robson &amp; Will McNelis want you to embrace your “political quotient” and hack (rather than avoid) office politics● Learn where and how you can join FOBA this year!</p><p>- Resources</p><ul><li>Connect with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanallenmoore/">Susan on LinkedIn</a></li><li> Follow the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/iiba-australia">IIBA Australia Chapter on LinkedIn</a></li><li>Find the agendas and get your tickets: <a href="festivalofbusinessanalysis.org">festivalofbusinessanalysis.org</a></li><li>Connect with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaughanluckman/">Vaughan Luckman on LinkedIn</a></li><li>Connect with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonrobson/">Sharon Robson on LinkedIn</a></li><li>Connect with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/willmcnelis/">Will McNellis on LinkedIn</a></li><li>Connect with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanehastie/">Shane Hastie on LinkedIn</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p><br><